The Excavation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes 1932-1939

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House of Menander (House 1), House of the Red Pavement (House 2), House 3, House 4, House 5
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House 1

H. 1.85 W. 1.955 Geometric mosaic pavement of room 16. Field, white mottled with pink. Outer border, red. Guilloche border outlined in dark grey with strands of, a) green-grey, yellow, white, and b) dull red, pink, white; single white tessera at center of each loop. Inner border, dark grey, enclosing a rainbow pattern with a row of indented diamonds down the center. The pattern is composed of three principal color successions separated by dark grey: a) green-grey, white; b) dull red shading to white; c) ochre shading to white. Indented diamonds outlined in dark grey and filled with brownish red, pink, white, with four dark grey tesserae in center.

6/27/1939
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